The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture and Processed Agricultural Products

This booklet contains the Executive Summary of the forthcoming publication The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture: an Evaluation of its Implementation in OECD Countries.

This larger study was undertaken under the 1999-2000 Programme of Work of the Committee for Agriculture. It analyses in depth the implementation of the three pillars of the Uruguay Round
Agreement on Agriculture (URAA): market access, domestic support and export subsidies in OECDcountries. It also provides an overall appraisal of the immediate trade implications of the URAA and presents evidence on the evolution of agricultural trade openness and levels of protection.

The author of this report is Dimitris Diakosavvas.